Zophobas Morio are one of few living creatures that can digest polystyrene. We look at these creatures and their ecosystem as a way to contemplate an anticipated future where resources for living are over-extracted and depleted. Our work examines the intersection of ecological collapse, capitalist extractivism, and interspecies collaboration through performance and installation.

In Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, borrowing from Slavoj Žižek and Frederic Jameson, he famously states that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. investigates moments of catharsis in the face of global crisis, systemic antagonism, and our own impending self-destruction due to late-stage capitalism, global warming, rising sea levels, increased authoritarianism, and other interrelated global imbalances.

In our initial performance at the Evans School in Denver we created a WebRTC app that allows us to live VJ a moving interrogation of the "worms" with a cell phone camera projected large. At the same time we speak about the science behind the worms and philosophy of the end of the world, while whipping the audience up into a chant of "worms!" over the noise of the critters feeding on the polystyrene.

At a month-long residency at Denver Digerati, we developed a walk-in installation with live broadcasting of the "worms" that we presented at Symbiotic Sense(s) conference in Riga, Latvia. The project continues to evolve as an ongoing investigation into post-capitalist futures and multi-species entanglements.

Most recently, we developed a month-long living installation as part of the RECESS exhibition for the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF), June - July 2025. In this iteration, participants could view the worms on site and hear them through four contact microphones mixed to stereo. An additional single channel live broadcast from two separate cameras mixed with the audio was sent to the web so that one could tune into the worms from remote 24/7.